Repost - All of the 'evil and dirty' things that the gays do

Even in 2021, anti-gay memes and tropes still exist even after they have been refuted.

On Thursday, I wrote about a harmless, very funny video which was taken by a horde of ignorant people to believe that gays actually do 'recruit' children. Today, that video has me going back through past blog posts. The following is from  2014 and makes a very good point. If you looked at all of the things the religious right and anti-LGBTQ industry have accused gays of, there is a hilarious, yet fundamental flaw in their claims:

Yesterday, courtesy of People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch, I read Ohio anti-gay activist Phil Burress make a claim that gay men have "as many as 200 sex partners."

A day later, Burress' outrageous claim continues to haunt me not only for its inanity but because it brings to focus something which has been dwelling in my mind for a long time in little bits and pieces.

I've read and heard so accusations against the lgbt community by the religious right that I've now come to the conclusion that these folks are just sloppy with what they say. Seriously, it's as if they don't care that eventually, someone will demonstrate just how incoherent their claims are.

So with that in mind, bear with me here. The following are the claims made about the lgbt community over the years by religious right and anti-gay activists:

Gays are sick people:

 Their [gay] minds are perverted, they’re frankly sick people psychologically, mentally, and emotionally.” – Bishop EW Jackson 

 Yet almost all gays make lots of money:

 “You know, I saw yesterday how much -- how much money the homosexual community has. I mean, good gracious, the average homosexual makes four times more than I do . . . I mean, they're not -- these people are not in poverty or hurting or denied or anything else.” – Donald Wildmon, American Family Association 

Gays are only a small part of the population: 

“Relying on three large data sets: the General Social Survey, the National Health and Social Life Survey, and the U.S. census, a recent study in Demography estimates the number of exclusive male homosexuals in the general population at 2.5 percent and exclusive lesbians at 1.4 percent.” – Family Research Council in its inaccurate brief “Homosexuality and Child Abuse” 

 Yet gays “control” the culture: 

“Homosexual activists in many ways, drive our culture, they decide what’s going to be in a movie, we see all the portrayals, homosexuals are the most positively portrayed in the movies and on television.” – Peter LaBarbera, Americans for Truth 

 Gays “bully” all of those who oppose them: 

“Instead, what we have is the gay Gestapo who go out and try to intimidate morally, economically, professionally, and personally anyone who speaks out against the homosexual agenda.” – Jeffrey Kuhner, The Washington Times 

Gays “Recruit” children:

 “. . . Folks who cannot reproduce want to recruit your children. What we are facing is a radical force of people who want to change what America looks for the next twenty years . . .” – Bishop Harry Jackson 

And are plotting to either destroy or change America and “silence” Christians:

 “Those special gay rights would require Christians not to speak against –would require us Christians not to speak against homosexual rights . . . because if we did, we could be charged with bullying or censored for it.” – Buster Wilson, American Family Association 

“Through a carefully crafted, decades-old propaganda campaign, homosexuals have successful cast homosexuals - many of whom enjoy positions of influence and affluence - as a disadvantage minority” – Matt Barber, Unmasking the “Gay” Agenda 

And while generating all of this mayhem, gays still manage to find time to have all sorts of mind-boggling wild sex with multiple partners:

“One study determined that homosexual males have from between 20 to 106 sexual partners per year. It’s no wonder that homosexual men account for over 50% of all hepatitis cases, and still account for over 50% of all AIDS cases despite the fact that they only make up 1-3% of the population.” – Matt Barber, The Gay Agenda vs. Family Values, December 12, 2004 

“Homosexual activists claim their lifestyle, which in some cases includes thousands of sexual partners, should be sanctioned, protected, and granted special rights by society. Would you critique this stance?“ – a question on Dr. James Dobson's web page. Dobson is the former head of Focus on the Family.

Allow me to surmise.  According to the religious right, the lgbt community is comprised of sad and sick individuals who make a lot of money, who are only a very small of the population but yet control the culture, bully those who oppose us, recruit children, and work to silence Christians and alter America while finding the time to have lots and lots and lots of sex.

Wow! How do we find time to do all of that? How do we find time to be all of that?

'At the end of SCOTUS term, where are we on LGBTQ+ rights' & other Thur midday news briefs

At End of SCOTUS Term, Where Are We on LGBTQ+ Rights? - We barely made it out alive. Our rights survived. This time.

FCC received hateful complaints about Lil Nas X’s “disgusting and disturbing” on-air kiss - Whatever . . .

'This will shut us down': HIV prevention clinics brace for Gilead reimbursement cuts - This is a mess.

WATCH: New Netflix show for pre-schoolers features a non-binary bison - This is a good idea to treat nonbinary as a credible situation rather than something comical like SNL did decades ago.

Hilarious video creates insane meltdowns about 'gays converting children'

 

UPDATE - You can see the video on the SF Gay Men's Chorus's youtube page by clicking this link.

 Recently, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus created a hilarious tongue-in-cheek video which made fun of the homophobic trope that gay are trying to recruit children. It's a funny video in which the chorus turned the trope inside out and called attention to how dumb it is while at the same time singing about acceptance.

But wouldn't you know it, the video "A Message From the Gay Community Performed by the San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus," got some people upset because they took it seriously. Conservatives and other members of the religious right sent out nonsense like such.

They also seemingly bombarded the video with ugly messages. Apparently it to so bad that the video was put into private. At the time, the video had 13,266 views, received 63 dislikes and 3,100 dislikes, and had 1,170 comments, most of which were deleted.

However, others saved a copy of the video. You can see it above (and I would hurry before it may be deleted again). It's amazing how homophobia makes one's mind into trash.

UPDATE - Unfortunately, this situation got worse thanks to a bunch of paranoid losers:

SF Gay Men’s Chorus closes office after 'harrowing' death threats from QAnon: report

'POSE' for simple respect and dignity

It's the middle of the week and I am already exhausted, so I want to post something which has brought up my spirits and will bring up yours, whether or not you are tired. 

This is a scene from Pose in which the characters have to read a transphobic bridal shop manager who disrespects them. The cherry on top is what his assistant does at the end. It should serve as a reminder for all LGBTQ people to not allow disrespect or coddle those who disrespects you.

'Ohio gov signs bill with exemption which could allow doctors to refuse LGBTQ patients' & other Wed midday news briefs

Ohio governor signs bill with exemption that could allow doctors to refuse LGBTQ patients - Well sh!t.

TikTok’s recommendation algorithm promoted homophobic and transphobic content during Pride Month - TikTok, you simply have to do better. 

There's Still Room for LGBTQ+ Catholics and Allies - Good luck. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks LGBTQ people and trans equality in lengthy Twitter rant - I am not "slut shaming," but from what I heard, Ms. Greene needs to stop worrying about what other people are allegedly doing in or out of their bedrooms. 

Guys describe the “stupidest” things they’ve done to seem straight - No comment.

Anti-gay columnist lies about Jan 6th insurrection in the same manner he used to lie about LGBTQ people

Robert Knight

Not too many LGBTQ activists and leaders today know or remember Robert Knight. Decades ago, he was a spokesman of the anti-LGBTQ industry employed by such groups as the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America.

His job was to appear in television interviews  or write "papers" and columns demonizing our community with claims he had to know were lies.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Robert Knight, a longtime conservative writer and journalist and major anti-LGBTQ propagandist, served as FRC’s director of cultural affairs from 1992 until 2002, when he went to Concerned Women for America (CWA). Knight later moved on to be a senior writer at Coral Ridge Ministries, which would later became Truth in Action Ministries and then D. James Kennedy Ministries. He is currently a senior fellow at the right-wing American Civil Rights Union. 

During his years at FRC, Knight penned anti-gay tracts that used the research of thoroughly discredited psychologist Paul Cameron, head of the Colorado-based hate group the Family Research Institute. Knight authored numerous anti-LGBTQ papers, and even used Cameron’s infamous “gay obituary” study in testimony he offered before Congress to oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in 1994. In his prepared statement on that topic, he said, “A study of more than 6,400 obituaries in homosexual publications reveals that homosexuals typically have far shorter life spans than the general population.” Cameron’s study has been thoroughly discredited for several reasons, one of which is its deeply flawed methodology. 

When asked in 2004 about using Cameron’s work, Knight, by then with CWA, responded, “Yes, we have used his research. So what?” While at FRC, Knight also co-wrote (with Robert York, a former editor at Focus on the Family) a 1999 booklet with the attention-getting title of “Homosexual Behavior and Pedophilia.” Among its more remarkable claims was the baseless assertion that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order.” The same publication argued that the “homosexual rights movement has tried to distance itself from pedophilia, but only for public relations purposes.” The booklet has since disappeared from FRC’s website, but the organization has not withdrawn the claims it made.  

I know personally that Knight blew off the question about using Cameron's discredited work because I was the person who asked him about it after a debate on the University of South Carolina's campus.

Knight does not spend all of his working time these days spreading falsehoods about the LGBTQ community. Instead, he spews a general overview of basic paranoia about how "the left" is trying to destroy American values. His latest piece, The Gaslighting of America, is par for the course as it is filled with anecdotal nonsense and right-wing talking points about how Joe Biden is attempting to create a "Marxist version of Sodom and Gomorrah" or how Black Lives Matters is a "Marxist" group which doesn't really care about black people because it doesn't talk about abortion.

Knight basically lists what he says are left-wing lies about issues, then takes it upon himself to supposedly refute them.  Such as this one (his words):

The Jan. 6 Capitol riot was an "armed insurrection" in which five died. 

Reality: No guns were found. Only one person was actually killed – unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt. The media don't care who shot her.

Using the same methods of distortion he employed demonizing LGBTQ people as a full-time occupation, Knight underplays just how dangerous the January 6th insurrection was. Knight neglected to say that the Jan 6th rioters could still be considered armed because though those who invaded the Capitol may not have had guns, they had other weapons.

NPR said:

 . . . a review of the federal charges against the alleged rioters shows that they did come armed, and with a variety of weapons: stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and flagpoles wielded as clubs. An additional suspect also allegedly planted pipe bombs by the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties the night before the riot and remains at large. Those weapons brought violence and chaos to the Capitol. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died one day after two rioters allegedly sprayed him and other officers with what prosecutors describe as an "unknown chemical substance." Four other people in the crowd died in the insurrection, and more than 100 police officers suffered injuries, including cracked ribs, gouged eyes and shattered spinal disks.

 

As for Ashli Babbitt, she may have been unarmed but that doesn't mean she wasn't threatening. She helped to storm the Capitol and attempted to crawl through a barricaded door. She was shot after refusing to comply with order by police and the Secret Service to stop. Who shot her is irrelevant. 

It's rather ironic that Knight highlights how Babbitt was unarmed while defending her. In 2012, he didn't give Trayvon Martin, the black teen shot and killed in Florida, the same courtesy or defense. At the time, he was too busy alluding to Martin's "problems with the law" while blaming the black community for its anger about his death.

Some would call Knight a phony and a giant hypocrite. But I guess when you have no problem citing bad studies from a discredited researcher (who also once claimed that gays stuff gerbils up their butts), you have the audacity to push any lie without blinking or fearing that lightning is going to strike you.

'It's on! GOP anti-transgender laws head to court' & other Tue midday news briefs

‘This isn't the Olympics’: GOP transgender laws head to court - Like we knew they would be going. Keep fingers crossed.

 
LGBTQ Americans, like all people, are made in the divine image and deserve to be treated with dignity - Amen. 

‘I was so lucky’: A gay son honors his dads lost to AIDS - Heartbreaking but awesome story about love and devotion. 

Violent mob forces cancellation of Tbilisi Pride in Georgia - The struggle is real and it is global. 

Biden nominates lesbian for ambassador-level post - Nice!